Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

When it comes to third party Facebook apps there are no shortage of them on Google Play with the most popular one being Friendcaster however even Friendcaster, with its subtle appearance changes, still oozes Facebook from top to bottom, which for some people is enough to stop them using the social network. “Everyone gets […]

So we have known for some time now that Facebook is a huge lover of people’s data, they have often been slated in the past for taking data belonging to people and sharing it with people who shouldn’t have access to it however today on a Google Hangout with Geek.com’s very own Russell Holly, CyanogenMod legend’s […]

After much publicity back in April, HTC and Facebook have decided to pull the plug the “First” phone’s launch in the UK. The Facebook phone was earmarked to be released on EE network through Orange. Pre-Order customers are being informed of the cancellation, by email. Mobile News quoted the story from sources that are […]

It looks like the HTC First A.K.A. The Facebook phone is now on sale for just $.99 cents on the AT&T Website with a two year contract. Although I would never use this phone, people that are on the fence about this device can now pick it up for a buck and do so in […]

Twitter has been saying for weeks that TweetDeck’s AIR and mobile apps would be shutting down sometime in May, but we didn’t have an exact date when loyal supporters would finally have to move on. Twitter have now released the date which has been confirmed as May 7th. So in just over two weeks, Twitter […]

Paul O’Brien over at MoDaCo has gotten his hands on and has released a pre-release version of the Facebook Home apps. Paul mentions that the apps are pretty buggy in their current state and some things like Chat Heads are not working. You will have to uninstall your current Facebook app before installing the leaked version. […]

Various users of Facebook for Android have been reporting that the app has been trying to prompt them to apply an update (Build 141046) without going through Google Play. It seems that this happens via a notification, and if you click on it, you are taken to the Facebook app. There it allows you to […]

Love it or hate it, Facebook is one of the most popular social media services at the moment. As a result most smartphones provide it as part of the main software of your phone. I have had the same on my HTC ONE X. A lot of consumers have been reporting that the app […]

Part of the excitement associated with the growth of the internet was messaging applications. Over the years we have seen many messaging applications such as MSN Messenger (later Windows Live Messenger, soon to be replaced by Skype), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM, MIRC and Google’s own GTalk or Google Talk. You could talk to people one […]

Facebook has updated it’s attempt at an Android app to now use native views instead of WebViews which used to slow it down to a halt. This should make a lot of users happier for those on modern devices.

Yesterday Pulse news reader, one of the more popular reader applications, known buy viagra simply as Pulse, has just received a huge update that brings it to version 3.0. This update adds some slick new features, some of which are exclusive the Android version of the app. The biggest new feature for the update is […]

Google+ has 250 million users, while that may seem like a lot, Facebook has 900 million. Just because you have more doesn’t mean you are better though. The results from the latest American Customer Satisfaction IndexE-Business Report show that Google+ is far better liked by the users, than Facebook is. Google+ is actually the highest […]

According to The Korea Times Samsung is going to produce its own social network which they claim will be competition for Facebook. Apparently the project is called “Samsung Facebook” I personally think this a wee bit unlikely but hey! They aren’t hiding the fact that the project is definitely heading towards a Facebook direction but […]

LevelUp Studio are the developers behind the very popular Android twitter client Plume, they also have an avenue they call the “LevelUp Beta Studio”. Now they release regular beta’s for us the users to test and report back before the stable builds hit the Google Play Store (Android Market). With added features, performance improvements, fixes […]

Yes folks you heard right! Facebook has today announced it is releasing it’s own app store. It plans on bringing the best Android apps, iOS apps, web apps and mobile web apps intact every type of app to it’s 900 million users. This includes free and paid apps. The app store sounds to be similar […]

For those of you that have used a Blackberry and used Blackberry messenger remember how you could see if someone had read the messages you’d sent and just hadn’t bothered to reply? Well now it would seem Facebook has taken a liking to this idea also with their most recent Messenger update. Other users can […]

Fast Facebook is a new Facebook application for Android. The application is mainly aimed at power users who want every option available to them without the need for it to be easy to use, however great when you learn how to use it. The login process is simple, yet it needs a bit more work […]

OneLouder Apps has just released it’s latest version (version 5) of arguably the best Facebook application there is for Android, and it’s even better. We’ve got what seems to be new right from their Version 5 website. From the site we can see we’re going to enjoy: Better push notifications (dependent on where you get […]

The popular social networking application, Seesmic, now has an update available bringing alone the following features: Updates to this version include the following added features: Viewing from Instagram and Twitter within your timeline Ability to upload images directly to Twitter Removed support for Chatter Implemented ad-support Various bugs fixes and minor improvements The update seems […]

Hey Guys ItsWillBarlow here! I will be stopping by from time to time to write some guest articles here on Land Of Droid so I hope you like what I have to say! StreamZoo the Instagram alternative for Android & iOS Personally I love this app I had Instagram back when I had my […]

Nielsen have found that, after the Android Market, Facebook is the most used app (How else will people download it?). This is among people aged 18 to 44, so therefore covers a large array of ages. Of course, a lot of the top apps are Google’s own, such as Gmail, Google Map and Youtube. This would […]

According to a recent post over at AllThingsD, Facebook are gearing up to release their own, very very modified, Android handset which will be codenamed “Buffy”. Of course, this is still along way off (if even true) as Facebook have reportedly asked HTC to manufacture this handset for them after deciding against going with Samsung. […]